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About Me:Retired from own property investment company, mainly commercial property. Still watch the market, think prices are just so over the top. I had hoped there would be a crash, well there is now and in my opinion a big one. I always thought BTL mortgages were a bad thing for the UK market.

You might want to consider doing the following, I did it as a best man, it brought the house down. It certainly broke the ice!

Give you ushers 20 (or what ever number you chose) envelopes with a short explanation letter and an old key. The letter should explain that when the best man in his speech says "if there is anyone one out there still with a key to the grooms key to his flat / house, I think now is the time to return it" Get the ushers to give these to any female 16 to 116 years old, pregnant girls are even better. The grannies loved it. You must write in there that this is a secret, don't spill the beans to anyone else. Just make sure no one, even the ushers know whats going to happen, just the chosen ladies.

When you say the magic words, all the women with a key will come up to the top table and hand over a key. What you can do is wait for the women to return to their tables and then say "we are still missing one key" and get a guy to come up to the groom with a key. When I did this the place was in uproar.

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You might want to consider doing the following, I did it as a best man, it brought the house down. It certainly broke the ice!

Give you ushers 20 (or what ever number you chose) envelopes with a short explanation letter and an old key. The letter should explain that when the best man in his speech says "if there is anyone one out there still with a key to the grooms key to his flat / house, I think now is the time to return it" Get the ushers to give these to any female 16 to 116 years old, pregnant girls are even better. The grannies loved it. You must write in there that this is a secret, don't spill the beans to anyone else. Just make sure no one, even the ushers know whats going to happen, just the chosen ladies.

When you say the magic words, all the women with a key will come up to the top table and hand over a key. What you can do is wait for the women to return to their tables and then say "we are still missing one key" and get a guy to come up to the groom with a key. When I did this the place was in uproar.

sounds great, don't know if I could pull that off but seriously thinking about it.

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About Me:Retired from own property investment company, mainly commercial property. Still watch the market, think prices are just so over the top. I had hoped there would be a crash, well there is now and in my opinion a big one. I always thought BTL mortgages were a bad thing for the UK market.

sounds great, don't know if I could pull that off but seriously thinking about it.

Trust me it's simple and works. I got that from a wedding photographer, I asked him what was the best speech he had ever heard, he came back with this gem of a story. I had people coming up to me after telling me how funny and original it was.

The best bit was, it was a very formal wedding, everyone on their best behaviour, a few nerves running around as well, as you would expect. After I did that, everyone started to relax and enjoy them selves. It can hardly fall flat anyway, it's just too funny and your involving so many people who loved being part of it.

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About Me:Retired from own property investment company, mainly commercial property. Still watch the market, think prices are just so over the top. I had hoped there would be a crash, well there is now and in my opinion a big one. I always thought BTL mortgages were a bad thing for the UK market.

Trust me it's simple and works. I got that from a wedding photographer, I asked him what was the best speech he had ever heard, he came back with this gem of a story. I had people coming up to me after telling me how funny and original it was.

The best bit was, it was a very formal wedding, everyone on their best behaviour, a few nerves running around as well, as you would expect. After I did that, everyone started to relax and enjoy them selves. It can hardly fall flat anyway, it's just too funny and your involving so many people who loved being part of it.

If you don't do the above, you can always start with the line " It appears someone has stolen my speech notes............ now would be a very good time to return them" I got a good laugh right from the start with that, especially when you put the helpless and panic struck look on! I was casually searching all my pockets at the same time.

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I've seen some horrendous things during best mans speeches. Complete character assassinations in the name of humour, Flip charts, slide shows, the singing of a self penned song that lasted eight interminable verses, floods of tears even.

It's a very English for the best man to humiliate the groom and themselves rather than speak of love, respect and friendship in public.

The best one I ever heard lasted less than a minute, everyone laughed but we were also able to reflect for that brief instant on genuine affection. There was no need for juvenile gimmicks.

You might want to consider doing the following, I did it as a best man, it brought the house down. It certainly broke the ice!

Give you ushers 20 (or what ever number you chose) envelopes with a short explanation letter and an old key. The letter should explain that when the best man in his speech says "if there is anyone one out there still with a key to the grooms key to his flat / house, I think now is the time to return it" Get the ushers to give these to any female 16 to 116 years old, pregnant girls are even better. The grannies loved it. You must write in there that this is a secret, don't spill the beans to anyone else. Just make sure no one, even the ushers know whats going to happen, just the chosen ladies.

When you say the magic words, all the women with a key will come up to the top table and hand over a key. What you can do is wait for the women to return to their tables and then say "we are still missing one key" and get a guy to come up to the groom with a key. When I did this the place was in uproar.

If the groom had given out his keys to x number of girls in the past how would you know there was one missing?

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What you can do is wait for the women to return to their tables and then say "we are still missing one key" and get a guy to come up to the groom with a key. When I did this the place was in uproar.

Trust me it's simple and works. I got that from a wedding photographer, I asked him what was the best speech he had ever heard, he came back with this gem of a story. I had people coming up to me after telling me how funny and original it was.

The best bit was, it was a very formal wedding, everyone on their best behaviour, a few nerves running around as well, as you would expect. After I did that, everyone started to relax and enjoy them selves. It can hardly fall flat anyway, it's just too funny and your involving so many people who loved being part of it.